Unit 25:The Turbulent 1960s The antiwar movement and the counterculture Chapter 26, Section 2, Chapter 27, Section 1 [How did non-violent protests influence U.S. policy during the end of the Vietnam War? How did college students and musicians influence the counterculture? Expanding movements for civil rights Chapter 25, Sections 2-3 [How was non-violent protest able to establish equal civil rights for all U.S. citizens? How and why did civil rights activists and protestors become more militant during the mid to late 1960s? From the New Frontier to the Great Society Chapter 24, Sections 1-3 [How did Presidents Kennedy and Johnson use the federal government to advance civil rights, freedoms and equality for wider sections of U.S. citizenry? Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe Chapter 22, Sections 2-4, Chapter 24, Section 2, Chapter 29, Section 4 [How did the federal government react to threats to the U.S. from Asia and Europe?] Beginning of Détente Chapter 28, Sections 1-3 [How President Nixon and his administration develop and maintain a peaceful relationship with China and the USSR?]

Essential Vocabulary Unit 25 Terms [all fair game for the next test] The Great Society Sit-ins [Greensboro Four] SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] Freedom Riders James Meredith 1963 Birmingham Protests Civil Rights Act of 1964 1965 Selma March for Freedom Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Watts Riots of 1965 The Kerner Commission Black Power Movement SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] Counterculture [Hippies, Communes, Haight-Ashbury district] New Frontier Missile Gap Televised Kennedy-Nixon Debates Election of 1960 The Warren Court “One Man, One Vote” Flexible Response The Alliance for Progress JFK’s inaugural speech The Peace Corps The Bay of Pigs invasion The Cuban Missile Crisis November 22, 1963 Assassination Johnson’s War on Poverty Election of 1964